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9
                     =
                        2
                Therefore, the pupil will drink       9  litres of milk in six days.
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                     Exercise 6

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                1.   Eliud had 20 sacks of millet. He gave.              of those sacks
                                                                      2
                    to his brother. How many sacks of millet did his brother

                    receive?
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                2.   A certain guest house has 48 beds. If        12  of those beds are
                    metal, how many beds are metal?
                                       1
                3.   Kangaroo  ran     3  of a distance of 15 kilometres. What

                    distance did it run?

                4.   A certain primary school is expected to register 160 pupils.
                       7
                    If   of the pupils were registered, how many pupils were
                       8
                    not registered?

                5.   A grandfather drinks half a litre of milk each day.  How
                    many  litres  of  milk  does  the  grandfather  drink  in  four

                    weeks?





              Division of fractions by whole numbers
              When  dividing  a  fraction  by  a  whole  number,  first  convert  the

              whole number into a fraction and change it to a fraction with 1 as
              the denominator. Then, use the rule of multiplying fractions.








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